Historical Committee

On April 30, NATCA Historical Committee (NHC) members provided tours of our Union’s National Office to more than 20 members attending NATCA in Washington 2024. NHC members gave a short history of NATCA as a union, […]

NATCA hosted a Meet and Greet for FAA Academy trainees on May 29 in Oklahoma City. Thirty-eight trainees attended the event where they received an overview of our Union’s history, structure, and benefits of membership. Dallas-Fort […]

In May 1989, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) celebrated the ratification of their first collective bargaining agreement. This landmark contract, approved by a decisive 84 percent of union […]

The NATCA Historical Committee (NHC) met on Dec. 14-15, 2023, at the National Office in Washington. The Committee is charged with the exclusive purpose of cataloging, documenting, and archiving the official history of the Union. “Our […]

Archie League — a name reverently whispered through the annals of aviation history and the namesake of NATCA’s annual award presented at our Union’s Communicating for Safety conference each year, honoring the best aviation “saves” by […]

On Sept. 23-24, 1986, 72 delegates attended NATCA’s founding convention in Chicago including provisional representatives from each of the FAA’s nine regions. John Thornton, the founding father of NATCA, announced that NATCA had collected more than […]